In May this year, Emmanuel Macron registered a landmark victory in the French presidential election defeating his nearest rival Marine Le Pen to become the youngest-ever leader of the country.

Macron,
a former investment banker has a challenging job ahead of heading a
country that has been marred
by violence and terror for almost two years now.

In
Focus

But,
there's something uniquely different about Macron which very few
know about and
was recently revealed in a book.
And that is Macron and his wife's fairytale love affair
which is as nonconformist as imaginable.

Meet
Brigitte Trogneux, the French first lady and Emmanuel Macron's
wife. What's bohemian about their
relationship and makes the
couple stand apart from the rest is not just age-gap
but rather
a
generation-gap
between the two. While Macron is 39, his wife Trogneux is 64, his
senior by 25 years.

Trogneux
used to be Macron's drama teacher in high school. Macron promised
to marry an already married and mum-of-three Trogneux when he was
just 16. However, according to a book, the couple faced a lot of
antagonism
from Macron's parents who were naturally against this schoolboy
love affair.

Throughout
his
election campaign, the couple was clicked embracing and kissing each
other, clearly accentuating their mutual bond. The two had met when
Macron was a 15-year old student at a Jesuit college in Amiens.

So
strong did their relationship become
that Macron's father had to ask Trogneux to stay away from his son
until he turned
18. However, a tearful Brigitte Auziere (her married name) replied
that she could not promise anything.

In
a French documentary last year, she had revealed that Macron was
different from other teenagers of her class, as reported by BBC News.

While
recalling those
days,
she said, "I didn't think it would go very far. I thought he
would get bored. We wrote, and little by little I was totally over
come by the intelligence of the boy."

At
age 16, Macron was sent by his parents to study in Paris. After his
graduation from the university and attaining adulthood, Trogneux
joined
him in Paris and the couple tied the knot in 2007. She took his name
only after divorcing her first husband. The couple do not have any
children together.

Details
about their romance were revealed in journalist Anne Fulda's book
titled "Emmanuel
Macron: A Perfect Young Man".